Protesters Clash With Police in Ukraine

Confrontation Followed Antigovernment Rally Sunday in Kiev

By

James Marson in Moscow and

Katya Gorchinskaya in Kiev

Updated Jan. 20, 2014 9:29 a.m. ET

KIEV, Ukraine—Antigovernment protesters tossed Molotov cocktails and cobblestones at riot police in the fiercest clashes in two months of demonstrations aimed at moving Ukraine closer to Europe rather than Russia.

Late Sunday, President Viktor Yanukovych ordered his national security adviser to arrange talks with opposition leaders Monday "to consider the question of settling the political crisis."